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Showing posts with label discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discrimination. Show all posts
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Schools: Plus Ça Change Plus C'est la Même Chose*

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*The more things change, the more they stay the same. Last week I wrote about Freedom Schools and the Freedom School curriculum , and I w...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Freedom Summer (50 Years Old) and Independence Day Thoughts

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I was trying to think of an appropriate blog post in honor of Independence Day, when I heard on the radio that this summer is the 50th anniv...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Love, Michigan (=)

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It's a New Day in Michigan. Read Judge Bernard Friedman's excellent ruling here . My friends' daughter holds her moms' w...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

OCR Complaint Resolved; Ann Arbor News Article Sows Some Confusion

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Community High School. Picture taken from the CHS web page . Last spring (May 2013), a family leveled a complaint against the Ann Arbo...
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Sunday, February 23, 2014

W.E.B Du Bois: Of The Color Line, the Class Line, and a Boyhood in Western Massachusetts

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Photo by Ruth Kraut, 2010 To close out Black History Month,* I thought I'd share some thoughts I had about a visit I made a few sum...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Student Advocacy Center: Solutions, Not Suspensions Campaign

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The Student Advocacy Center in Ann Arbor is part of a Solutions, Not Suspensions Campaign . This is part of a national movement to reduce s...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

I'm Proud. . .

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I'm proud of the brave teachers who are plaintiffs in the American Civil Liberties Union suit over the ban on domestic partner benefits...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Pilgrims and Indians

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True, this post is not really about Pilgrims. Growing up in an east coast town where the first European settlers arrived in 1630, and where ...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Reprise: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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Astute readers of this blog will know that I've already written, at length, about the book that I bought my youngest son a couple of yea...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Area Teens: Let's Make It Better Now

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EMU is having a contest around LGBT Bullying issues. Money is involved. Yes, a $500 prize! Plus--it looks fun! EMU's first annual advo...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Pass this jobs bill and...

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. . . hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged young people will have the hope and dignity of a summer job next year.   (President Obama...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Whatever Happened?

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To the state budget? The House votes tomorrow; the Senate voted today. You'll find more information at mipfs.org . This rolls back fundi...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Saline Non-Discrimination Policy: More News

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Saline Schools Superintendent Scot Graden has a blog post that describes the recent history of the Saline Schools non-discrimination ordina...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Saturday Night's Fun: Skyline Soccer, MHSAA, and Title IX

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 My Saturday Night The Skyline women's soccer team made it to the District 2 regionals and I went to see my daughter's friend play. ...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Race/ism & Disparities

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Just a few days apart, two thought-provoking articles show up in Annarbor.com. In the first article, Simone Lightfoot--relatively new AAPS s...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Desegregation Outcomes

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The primary focus of the 1985 reorganization was integrating the schools--in particular, integrating the black and white populations. The As...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Some Interesting Links

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A tweet from DavidNGoodman (Detroit-area AP reporter) led me to this teacher blog from someone who started out in Teach For America: Not Mu...
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Monday, November 2, 2009

Racial Discrimination and Tracking

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There was an interesting story on NPR the other day on how tracking plays out in one middle class community. Here's the link , and I s...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

It's About Communication

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Last night at Skyline's PTSO meeting, principal Sulura Jackson gave a pretty good summary of the events and AAPS follow-up to the first ...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Ramadan Mubarak: A Blessed Ramadan

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First--to any Muslim readers--may you have a Ramadan Mubarak , a blessed month of Ramadan. I started this post a few weeks ago, intending to...